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EUGENE SCHNEIDER, OF PARIS, FRANCE, ASSIG-NOR T0 SCHNEIDER CIE., OFPARIS, FRAN CE, A'LIMITED JOINT-STOCK COMPANY OF FRANCE.

APPARATUS FOR LOADING GUNS.

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To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, EUGENE SCHNEIDER, a citizen of the French Republic,and a resident of 42 Rue,d-Anjou, Paris, France, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Apparatus for Loading Guns, which invention 1sfully set forth in the following specification.

This invention has for its object to provide an improved apparatus whichis morev particularly applicableto guns of medium and large calibers,for the purpose of effecting in a convenient `manner the setting of thetime fuse ring of the shell and the insertion of the latter into thebreech of the gun. The invention consists substantially inthearrangement of a setting device at a suitable point of the oscillatingmass ofthe gun, and in the combination of this setting device with atrough mounted on the gun cradle and designed to receive the .'shell.These two parts (the setting device and the trough) are mounted on theirrespective supports insuch a manner that either of them, or both ofthem, or one relatively to the other canbe moved in such a manner as toallow:

l. Of bringing the axis of the shell (which has been previously placedin the MLtrough) in line with the axis of the setting device, and ofbringing the latter and the u ably together.

2. Of bringing the axis of the -shell mounted in the trough, in linewith the axis of the gun barrel for the purpose of charg in the shellinto the latter.

arious w'ays of carrying ouit this invention and various constructionalforms of the improved apparatus are illustrated by wa ings in which:

Figures 1 to 8 inclusive illustrate a first constructional example 'of.the invention.

Fig. l is a side elevation showing the charging trough jointed'to thegun cradle vin the position it occupies for Settingthel sesuitof examplein the accompanying draw-- Fi 4 is aside elevation similar to Fig. 1,but s owing the' trough i-n the position it occupies for charging theshellinto the gun breech.

Fig. 5 is a plan partly in sectionon the line V-V of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is an end elevation partly in section on the line VI-VI of Fig.5.

Fig. 7 is aside elevation showing the charging trough in the position itoccupies after the shell has been rammed into the gun breech. n Fig. 8is a corresponding plan showing the rammer moved out Vof the way by theclosing of the breech.` i, y

Figs. 9 and 10 are respectively a side elevation (partly in section) andvertical cross-section on the line X-X'of Fig. 9'of a modification ofthe constructional example shown in the previous figures.

Fig. 11 is a partial horizontal the line XI-XI of Fig. 9.

Figs. 12 to 25y illustrate another constructional form of the invention.

Figs. 12 and 12a, whichare complements section on .of each other, are aside elevation of'the gun fuse.

Figs. 15 and 15, which arecomplements of' each other, .are a sideelevation showing the cradle-supporting frame and the parts carried'byit, in the position they occupy when the rim of the shell has beenengaged by the breech-block serving as a rammer.

Figs. 16 and 16, which'are 'complements of each other, are a plan viewof the same, partly in section, on the line XVI-XVI of Fig. 15. i y Fig.17 is a `vertical'cross-section on the line XVII-XVII ofpFig. 13, theparts be- `ing shown in the position indicated in dot and dash lines inthe latter figure.

Fig. 18 is an enlarged detailed plan view ward the other for the purposeof setting the t

